skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you use iOS: Turn on Lockdown mode. All your devices. Don't look back. Grant exemptions for individual, known/trusted websites/apps if needed to regain functionality that's critical. Even if you have to whitelist a few websites or apps, it's better than having all the interfaces exposed to all the things.

You eliminate a ton of "complicated, probably exploitable things" in spaces known to be commonly exploited. Oddball image formats, the Javascript JIT engine, "complex" messaging (Facetime, MeMojis, that... entire ecosystem of weird-not-text-not-image stuff that Apple does), WebGL, WebRTC, link preview processing (I expect a common 0-click exploit chain is through that system), and probably some other stuff.

The phone/tablet is entirely usable without this stuff. Some websites don't render images properly, "that one guy's website" doesn't do the animations, but you can individually bypass Lockdown mode for sites, apps, etc - and you still get the protections for everything else.

And if you're a web developer or app developer, please. Test your website on an iOS device with Lockdown mode enabled. Pick image formats that render properly, it's not hard. And if your app requires something that isn't supported in Lockdown mode, that's fine - but please show some sort of useful error message that indicates that, perhaps, this crash/glitch/whatever is the result of Lockdown mode, and you can disable it by following these steps. Then, also, don't sell to some random purchaser of apps.

But Lockdown mode really, really helps reduce the attack surface. Try it. You'll like it! And it might just help prevent getting you popped by this sort of crap.

... then install QubesOS on your full computers and don't look back. ;)
ArgUI: Automatically Create a GUI Interface for Python3 'argparse'
I remember watching Examination Day (later Twilight Zone from the 80s) when I was a kid when my parents were away (I wasn't allowed to watch the twilight zone) and I couldn't sleep well for quite a while after that but could not tell my parents why.
Seems tedious and too full of analogies. I'm reminded of that monad tutorial involving space suits. Read this instead:

https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Haskell/Category_theory
He literally wrote this:

> OpenAI’s board now stating “We once again need to raise more capital than we’d imagined” less than three months after raising another $6.6 billion at a valuation of $157 billion sounds alarmingly like a Ponzi scheme

Ponzi scheme. If he's shilling something I guess it's "shorting".
and tragically enough, also the last American president to do so. The most Biden and before him Obama (during 2014 war), ever did was to delay arms delivery to Israel while threatening war against any country supply small arms to Palestine.
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You do not want to use IndexedDB, you should avoid IndexedDB if you can make live work without it.

IndexedDB rows need to be very coarse grained, each operation with the IndexedDB API has very high overhead compared to something like walking a LSM tree in RocksDB or something. If the index does fit in memory, then the best move would be to store and load the entire index from a single or a few IndexedDB rows.

If you need to index a lot of documents in a way that doesn't fit in memory, I recommend you consider sqlite3, stored in either OPFS or on IndexedDB, and use sqlite's FTS5 full text search stuff for the index. There are several sqlite backends available (see https://github.com/rhashimoto/wa-sqlite/tree/master/src/exam...), something like their IDB VFS will store each block in the sqlite file as a row in IndexedDB essentially batching storage of the index rows into IDB rows for you (for more details read https://github.com/rhashimoto/wa-sqlite/blob/3c202615ed6f54e...)
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If you know of the commons, you near certainly, know of the “tragedy of the commons’. It is VERY clear that exploiting the commons diminishes its value.

There is no such thing as a free lunch. Over grazing common pasture land, results in its decimation.

There are national and international level bodies required to ensure we dont kill all the rhinos. Hell - that we dont kill all the people.

The printing press, universities, education - these are NOT commons in many places, nor do they function as commons. Let alone function as LLMs.

Common knowledge is not the same as the commons.
What is your bet in 2025?
What tech, product, or project are you betting on for 2025?
Yes, that's fair. You can generally either go for the "1 time bet the house" bugs, or you can go for the salami slicing so small across many transactions and there's minimal grey areas in between...

But as a general rule there's a trade off between signal generated by your winnings vs the frequency of your trading all balanced against your power and ability to manipulate and capture the market.

If you bet big enough and pull off the implementation successfully once such that you can get away in that one time (and ensure the system doesn't respond to cancel your winnings as it will often try to due to the cost benefit of paying you out), congrats. And you can go the opposite strategy and have lots of small winnings and fly under the radar and make profit just below the cost of entry or dealing with you, but you won't make squillions.

If anyone repeatedly makes big money, what is almost certainly going on is some other expression of market power, because if you don't have that power, the real market power will make the calculations on shutting you down once you're detected.
You think the public in general is highly concerned with protecting copyrighted works? Like, they’re all saying “I would love to pay OpenAI but they are infringing on my beloved Reuters copyrights”?
What makes Coolidge so favorable? He doesn't seem to have been an exceptional character but one who simply rode the economic tailwinds.
I don't think it's settled fact that the US has worse health outcomes. In fact, most data I see points to the opposite. Some people point out very lazy metrics like life expectancy while ignoring that 72% of Americans are overweight or obese according to the CDC. Rearrange healthcare/government insurance models all you want; it can't fix that.
New Jersey's 'Radium Girls' and the NIST-Trained Scientist Who Came to Their Aid
philisophically, it does a lot of reflections of what people vote for. The economy was bad under Reagan, Reagan fixed the short term at the "cost" of letting corporations slowly spiral out of control. By the time people notice this Reagan would be long out of office, possibly long dead.

Jimmy overall was thinking long term and made tough decisions that were unpopular. Leading to one of the biggest blowouts in decades at that point (one that has not yet been replicated since). The only surprise here is that Carter didn't become jaded and just live out his life peacefully on his own terms.
According to this article https://archive.is/v5k1Y, Iceland also has hydro power.

> Alcoa arrived in 2007 after Iceland built a giant power plant on the other side of the island, near a sparsely populated region where the fishing industry was in decline.

Iceland’s electric utility built five highland dams that capture glacial meltwater. The largest of the resulting reservoirs is roughly the size of Manhattan. The water is piped 25 miles to an underground power plant, then dropped a quarter-mile down another pipe to make the turbines spin. Finally, the resulting electricity is transmitted 47 miles on high-voltage lines to the ocean’s edge.

Electricity in Iceland costs about 30 percent less than what Alcoa might pay in the United States.

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%A1rahnj%C3%BAkar_Hydropow...

I would say that Norway has an advantage because Iceland's remoteness makes it more expensive to ship the bauxite there (there is no bauxite mining in Iceland itself) and the aluminum back. Still, it's apparently the second largest aluminum producer in Europe.
If we make it strict enough to block exfiltration, it'll block the external libraries from loading. So that means we have to load our scripts from the same origin instead of external origins (as jclarkcom suggested).

But the whole reason for CSP was to allow us to use external libraries without exfiltration risk. If we stop using external libraries, then our motivation for using CSP is gone. So CSP is useless for the purpose of this conversation.
Look at the thousands of years of Europe. People were moving in Europe, to Europe and from Europe. If they did not had the freedom to do so, it was often done by force. Wars, slave trade, migrations, ... that has been in our history for thousands of years.

Now EU citizens can do it peacefully.

Freedom of movement in the EU also does not mean "people can move freely in Europe". It's a right for EU citizens. Not for all people. It's also for people who can actually afford to live at a new place.

Preserving a cultural heritage does not mean regions are suddenly cultural museums. Cultural regions also are not by single nations, they span across several nations or nations have several cultural regions.

For example in Germany there wasn't a 'Nation' for much of the history. Much of the culture came out of changing regions. Visit Munich, Aachen, Lübeck, Danzig (not even a part of Germany today) and look at their history. Different. Look at their cultural history: different. They are now living in a FEDERAL republic of states (Danzig is even in Poland, now). A Bundesrepublik of Bundesländer. This FEDERAL republic is also a member of the EU. People from German regions can move freely in the German states. They also can move freely in the EU.

Cultures in Europe developed and mixed since the beginning of human settlement on this continent. Now it still happens, peacefully.

I live in Northern Germany. There was an intense cultural exchange for hundreds of years, spanning several regions. Do you think that this is suddenly not a part of my cultural heritage?

Don't you think that modern transportation, modern communication, change things? Don't you think we need to find answers to changes? That we cope with changes? This platform here is international in English, from the US, spreading innovations and discussions about it. Don't you think that this has effects? Deep cultural effects??? Freedom of Movement in the EU is one of the answers to these changes we see.
Do you not understand fiduciary responsibility? If they can charge and make more money they are effectively obligated to. They would need to sell their investors against the plan that everyone uses AND propose a plan that will make more money.

Reddit went through this around their IPO.
Nicotine consumption causes the vascular system to constrict and a person's heart to start beating faster to push the blood through. Similar environment to a fetus in a over pressurized antibiotic sack, too much fluid. Doctors monitor for this and may remove fluid to depressurize so the heart and other major organs don't fail. Just like alcohol, nicotine does not have any health benefits.

People often over simplify complex systems. It is not just one, smoke, but multiple factors that cause health issues. Chewing tobacco proves toxicity is not just from carcinogens and tar build up in the lungs. Vaping may decrease the probability of dramatic health issues it does not drop it to 0.
Obligatory: https://www.dreamingincode.com/
It was a better system, because if I didn't need the new features, I could keep using the version of Microsoft Word that I bought 15 years prior. That's why they stopped selling it that way.
https://www.cbc.ca/lite/news is great and so fast. I miss page loads like that.
I have the vague memory that it was a distributed reimplementation of PLATO Notes, which had otherwise similar capabilities but was born as a bug tracking system?
I agree. But you think that makes China’s treatment of the Uyghurs look saintly? Really? Saintly?
Network effects are real huh? Geez, who knew?
That’s long outdated information.

LS can easily block all Apple phone-home. (Some must be unblocked, specifically gs.apple.com, for UpdateBrainService, for OS updates to work.)

I have a few macs that don’t communicate with Apple at all except during system updates.
The best 21st century presidents can barely do much, so are basically nothing burgers. Any policies they do pass are basically negated in 4 years. And the worst ones make me yearn for Regean. At least he pretended to care about the american people.

That was definitely the biggest change in 50 years. There seemed to be a lot more bipartisan support for things overall that would actually help the country. Now it's a pissing contest at the turn of the century. Good bills won't pass simply because of who's name is on the bill.
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Thank you :)

It's open to everyone, I'll post more information on the site.

Though I really want some strong moderation. Too much generalized/LLM content on the web nowadays...
> You're asking for a lot of evidence on what's overall the opinions of an entire country

we literally just had a referendum on that. moving further left from 2016-2020-2024 lost voters. how pissed off do people have to be to have that result? that implies, very strongly, to me that there is a huge segment in the center-left to center-right that is really irritated right now. not bernie's group for sure. although he seems more center compared to the "squad". you should thank them for that.
I've worked in tech in the Bay Area for 30 years, started in IT at UC Berkeley and then at Sendmail. Never heard this term before. We always "wiped and re-imaged".
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The issues it causes are for nosy devs, not for the end user, generally speaking.
There is a good chance that if the hostages had been released before election day that Carter would have won.

Hamilton Jordan, his chief of staff, wrote a book about Carter's last year in office. A lot of people thought Reagan was a clown. He was not as popular as his worshippers in the GOP like to think. Reagan was usually ahead of Carter in polls before the election, but usually by a few points, not the same margin as the final count.

The hostage crisis started on Nov 4, 1979; the one year anniversary of the hostages being taken was right on election day. A lot of media was running stories on the hostages in the week leading up to the election, particularly over the weekend. Jordan says there was a shift that took them all by surprise in its speed and magnitude. When you spend months only a point or two behind, it is easy to think you might win.
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That is a popular remark by libre office fans, but it is not true when I look at commit counts. As for security issues, it is interesting how nobody repeating this ever can cite any known security flaws. A quick comparison between the open office security bulletin and recently published CVEs (2023 or more recent) suggests that they are all fixed.

https://www.openoffice.org/security/bulletin.html

https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=openoffice

Note that two of the ones in the mitre results are in a PHP project that is not part of the Open Office code base.

Unless you can prove otherwise, it looks to me like people saying this are spreading FUD. The GitHub commit analysis shows an active project, although not as active as libre office, so the remarks about Open Office being a dead project are exaggerations at best and outright lies at worst.

Finally, I would like to remark that it is ridiculous to complain because I cited an open source project you do not use/like. This is vim vs emacs levels of nonsense.
I have trouble understanding how someone who writes code every day and uses AI to do so would actually pull the trigger on this kind of move now…

I really seems more like the clueless manager type move.

Whole thing seems more like a PR stunt too.
Apple OSes maintain consistent connections to APNS (apple push notification service) using hardware-linked certificates, exposing your unique system and IP address (and thus city-level location) to Apple at all times.
This assumes that everything is a single move game; that people will not adapt to the new GenAI internet, nor the new behaviors of corporations.

Heck - how many people will go to stack overflow when they can get pseudo good answers from GenAI in the first place?

And stack overflow is filled with bots, and not humans?

Why would they contribute, when every action they take will simply mean OpenAI or someone will benefit, and some random bot will answer?

Signal vs Noise is what the internet is all about. Plastic was a godsend when it was invented. It’s a plague found at the bottom of the Mariana Trench today.
>not if you need to access from multiple devices (otherwise, what's the point of this feature?)

I don't think the feature works perfectly fine on single device. You take a ton of pictures on your iPhone. You search your photos for "Eiffel tower" and it shows you the photos you took of the Eiffel tower. I don't see why you need multiple devices.
in the last century, I think HW bush would get a solid top 3 placement (a bit hard to top FDR). He seemed to be one of the last conservative presidents that seemed to be trying to do the right things. And kicked out for doing so. No one likes it when "the right thing" raises their taxes.
Obviously it was the Bosnian-Serb phase of the conflict, aka "The Bosnian War" I was referring to.

Which is generally considered to have started with the events of April 5th-6th.

If you are ukranian, pray that ...

Telling people what to think, based on where you think they are from.

How delightfully imperial of you.
This is one of those moments where the person you are talking to says something like “I don’t have the time or the crayons to explain this to you.” I am sure it happens a lot.
> How many of those have had trouble sending mail to eg gmail?

Had to set up SPF/DKIM/DMARC, then it started working again.
Even a president can't just snap their fingers and fix inflation overnight. We're going through the exact same thing right now.

it was a miracle enough that they brought down the crazy inflation from COVID and stopped another recession. It's a shame that it seemed like that remission reversed right before election season, though.
It switched from being a product that you can buy, to a service to which you must subscribe in perpetuity.

AKA IAP subscription cancer
> Aside from anomalies like, say, the Gameboy or Game Gear

And at the time there weren't good rechargable options. If modern NiMH had existed a few years earlier, lasting just as long as alkaline for a dollar each, they would have been the normal power source for those hungry devices.
Why is ability to post a service but ability to see what everyone posts not a service? I would think its the other way around, users are providing value, let them do it for free, you find the content valuable and want a firehouse to see what everyone is saying, you should pay.
Good? It's so weird to see beer and airline industries in the same comparison.
Could such causation be proven, if it existed? I don't think so.

In addition to contemptuous elitism and Trump, there is also agreement that the US is very divided.

Also, as the posts above suggest, people who oppose people who oppose the EU, do not meet these people with the same proportion they appear to exist according to polls. Which matches my experience that educated people are afraid to express their opposition to the EU.

Still does not prove causality, because causality on such an issue cannot be proven.

You need to look into second-order effects in order to get a clue what is happening. First second-order clue is that people are afraid to express their opinion. The second one is that opinion is very polarized and people are divided on the issue into "us" and "them", i.e. divided.
> This has been the way for thousands of years. It has survived the inventions of writing, printing, radio, television and the internet. It will survive LLM

Guilds used to jealously guard their secrets. Metallurgy techniques were lost when their creators died, or were silenced.

And most crucially - the audience has always been primarily humans. There has never been an audience composition, where authors have to worry about plagiarism as the default.

The idea of free exchange of ideas is something that we enjoyed only recently.

This isn’t naysaying or doom and gloom - this is simply reality. Placing our hopes on the wrong things leads to disappointment, anger and resentment when reality decides our hopes are an insufficient argument to change its ways.
Part of me still wonders if those deregulations would have stopped Boeing, or if Boeing simply would have been sneakier.
I am sure for some people it’s about “illegal” immigration, and that’s certainly the messaging, but if that were actually the main case, maybe Republicans would do something to make legal immigration less awful?

My idiot grandmother, in no uncertain terms, thinks Mexicans should be deported for racist reasons. She has let the curtain slip enough times to make that obvious. I don’t think it’s bad to call outright racist people “idiots”.
Good. Access to cost effective censorship free broadband is crucial for people who lack it. I just hope governments don’t impose their various censorship regimes with threats of banning starlink sales.
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That does not change that they have weekly activity. That is more than most repositories on GitHub.
On the other hand, experiments with $20+ minimum wages in places like Seattle are creating an unsustainable drop in revenues for a lot of restaurants and the tips that employees expected.

It is a curve, and price discovery is definitely a thing that the government can’t ignore. In Seattle they are in the awkward phase where the politicians admit the problem but walking back the minimum wage policy, which ratchets upward every year, is not something they want to consider politically.

I have close friends in the food service industry in Seattle that have become quite against the minimum wage increases (which they earn as base pay) because it is costing them a lot of money in real terms and they foresee future reductions in employability, which puts them at risk economically.

This coming from an era when competent service employees were so in demand that employers would make concessions that even tech employees don’t get. They weren’t paid as much but they were given flexibility that most people would envy.
When your CI is too big, do at least a random selection. So you'll catch bugs at least as somewhen. With selective testing you just ignore them
Dumb question, what is SOTA implant?
Both no?

People with power and money, can get paid. Artists who have no reach and recognition get exploited. Especially those from countries which arent in north America and Europe.
> Amazon might be a good analogy here. I'm old enough to remember when Amazon absorbed billions of VC money, making losses year over year. Every day there was some new article about how insane it was.

When was this true? Amazon was founded Jul 1994, and a publicly listed company by May 1997. I highly doubt Amazon absorbed billions of dollars of VC money in less than 3 years of the mid 1990s.

https://dazeinfo.com/2019/11/06/amazon-net-income-by-year-gr...

As far as I can tell, they were very break even until Amazon Web Services started raking it in.
How’s it compare to Objective See’s LuLu OSS https://github.com/objective-see/LuLu ?
Thanks aware of Verilog, I was thinking of using either Verilog or VHDL as a second repo to build this emulator with an FPGA in either of those languages

Second project idea
They could also just release a desktop app like a normal company
> Catastrophic health insurance makes no sense as an insurance product since the probability of catastrophic health event costing hundreds of thousands of dollars is so high as one ages.

Then no health insurance would make sense?

Well, as you suggest, the regulations that cap the premiums for old people at 3x those of young people seem to blame?